I was not trying to say that everybody
should learn English. The point I was
trying to make there is that knowing
English is a privilege and that it is easy
to not notice it.
I agree with that, too. How is teaching language different relative to
the Foundation Mission than teaching subjects of encyclopedia
articles?
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2018-02-27 21:23 GMT+02:00 James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com>om>:
Languages are taught by authoritative
dictionaries (after people, and
ahead of almost all other similar reference books.)
... Yeah, and building an authoritative dictionary is considerably harder
than building a (de facto) authoritative encyclopedia. Despite, I have
enormous respect for Wiktionary, and great (great!) hopes about Lexical
Wikidata.
Wiktionary has multiple teaching functions
whether we want it to or
not:
https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/efe362e1-fe80-4c90-
bc1e-4ab2d9bbae20/1/
Why not :)
Amir, you know it would not be losing focus
because of what you said
in your talk at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xJaqQV71s
Um... thanks for the publicity :)
But no, that's not what I said. I was not trying to say that everybody
should learn English. The point I was trying to make there is that knowing
English is a privilege and that it is easy to not notice it. Of course, if
that point didn't come through, it's my fault.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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